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Dead Reckoning
A poet and essayist attempt to find their bearings in a civilization lost at sea. Dead reckoning is the nautical term for calculating a ships position using the distance and direction traveled rather than instruments or astronomical observation. For those still recovering from the atrocities of the twentieth century, however, the term has an even grimmer meaning: toting up the butchers bill of war and genocide. As its title suggests, Dead Reckoning is an attempt to find our bearings in a civilization lost at sea. Conducted in the shadow of the centennial of the First World War, this dialogue between Romanian American poet Andrei Guruianu and Italian American essayist Anthony Di Renzo ask...
The Afterlife of Discarded Objects
The Afterlife of Discarded Objects: Memory and Forgetting in a Culture of Waste As one of its driving principles, The Afterlife of Discarded Objects: Memory and Forgetting in a Culture of Waste analyzes the double reconstitution of discarded items. In this afterlife, discarded objects might transform from a worthless object into a plaything or a work of art, and then to an artifact marking a specific historical time period. This transformation is represented through various forms of recollection—stories, photographs, collectibles, heirlooms, monuments, and more. Shaped by nostalgia and wishful thinking, discarded objects represent what is wasted, desired, and aestheticized, existing at the...
Examining the COVID Crisis from a Geographical Perspective
This book presents several perspectives on the COVID-19 crisis as it impacted the United States, focusing on policies, practices, and patterns. It considers the relationship between government policies and neo-liberalism, (anti)federalism, economies of scale, and material culture. The COVID-19 crisis became the primary current event in the United States in March 2020 and continued for several years. In the early days of the crisis, the United States lacked a cohesive, comprehensive approach to combating its spread. As a result, the pandemic was experienced differently in different parts of the United States and at different scales. The chapters in this volume include both quantitative and qu...
The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow No. 5
It's becoming an annual tradition! The fifth issue of The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow is chock full of great poetry and essays, from poets who live in Rutherford, NJ or who travel there to enjoy the borough's vibrant poetry scene. Rutherford's accomplished Claudia Serea is the feature poet for this issue. Other great poets herein include Jim Klein, John Barrale, Mark Fogarty and Zorida Mohammed of the original Red Wheelbarrow Poets as well as many others who have taken place in the group's workshops or by coming to readings at the Williams Center or GainVille Cafe in Rutherford. Enjoy this magnificent display of poetry that proves the epic is the local fully realized!
Two-Countries
The IPPY Award–winning anthology of poetry, memoir, and essays—“accounts of assimilation and nostalgia, celebration and resistance” (Rick Barot, author of The Galleons). This collection contains contributions from sixty-five writers who were either born and/or raised in the United States by one or more immigrant parent. Their work describes the many contradictions, discoveries and life lessons one experiences when one is neither seen as fully American nor fully foreign. Contributors include Richard Blanco, Tina Chang, Joseph Lagaspi, Li-Young Lee, Timothy Liu, Naomi Shihab Nye, Oliver de la Paz, Ira Sukrungruang, Ocean Vuong, and many other talented writers from throughout the United...
Bitter Greens
Food-based reflections on Italian food, American culture, and globalization.
Body of Work
Throughout thirteen stories, Body of Work chronicles the physical and emotional toll of characters consumed by the all-too-human need for a connection. Their world is achingly common - beauty and regret, obsession and self-doubt, the seductive charm of loneliness. Often fragmented, whimsical, always on the verge of melancholy, the collection is a sepia-toned portrait of nostalgia - each story like an artifact of our impermanence, an embrace of all that we have lost, of all that we might lose and love again someday.
The Distant Beautiful
The inspiration for this novella of prose arose during the height of the Arab Spring. It is a hybrid narrative, one that makes use of poetic prose, reportage, literary quotes, and philosophical ruminations. Ultimately, however, it is a book of ideas as it follows an unnamed protagonist, who is a photographer, as he moves between Eastern Europe and Russia photographing a round of protests and revolutions is sweeping through the region. He falls in love with a young protester who makes him contemplate the need of beauty in art, as well as beauty futility. The book aims to raise our cultural consciousness by addressing through historical and contemporary references such topics as the limitation...
